Beach houses and lake houses

I had loads of latte dates with my uber cool client Katy

Nothing like guests to inspire a decorating project!  I'm just about finished
with my upstairs guest room (aka Mimi's home away from home)

Just one of hundreds of hip finds for Katy's new beach house

I die for this door, which is going to become a pocket door in her master bathroom

This rug is one of my all time faves!  Headed to Katy's living room soon.

It took everything in my core to not scoop up this rug -- now headed to Katy's killer master closet

Snuggle time with Auntie Lauren who paid us a fun surprise visit

Caught this sweet moment Friday morning while visiting with my new flea coordinator

Friday funday with the kiddos.  This was Landry's first stab at the big girl swing!

Barrett tried out the baby swing and loved it!  He couldn't stop giggling.

Friday date night 

Packing up from a fun afternoon at the Canton flea market.

Landry's first fresh lemonade and loads of treasures in, on and under our ride

Happy to be at the lake house!

Landry playing with her flea market finds -- a vintage rocker and wood blocks

Relaxing with Barrett in the backyard while Michael and Landry checked out the boat house

So in love with this sweet little guy

Sunday morning play time

Barrett breaking in the new rocking chair

Landry not so happy about the situation

At our favorite little local greasy spoon at the lake,
 she scored a kiddie grill (aka gold rapper-style teeth, great grandparents).
I about fell over laughing.

Checking out the motorcycle show.  We watched about 40 leave the parking lot

Last week was jam-packed.  My Newport Beach client Katy came to town to shop for several days and stayed with us as well.  We had an absolute ball shopping from dusk til dawn and room planning over wine and cocktails.  We tackled so many items that it was worth every single tiring second.

Thursday night my childhood buddy/college freshman year roommate Lauren was in town and popped in for dinner and to meet Barrett.  We had such a lovely evening catching up over champagne cocktails.

Friday I took off the entire day to chill out with the kiddos.  It was a little overcast so we just cuddled up at home, strolled to the park for a bit and ate a bag of popcorn while watching our 1000th episode of Caillou.

That night Michael and I took off for a night on the town that ended up with drinks at the Ritz.  It was just what we both needed after a long work week that allowed for little downtime together.

We decided to head out east Saturday and Sunday for some serious family time.  We hit the Canton flea on the way to find some fun things for the house as well as for my clients.

It was Landry's first time to Canton and she was in hog heaven!  She was running around the aisles picking up fun things.  She discovered some vintage wood blocks at one booth so we bought them for her and she clenched the bag the rest of the day.

My favorite find was a vintage wood rocking chair.  Landry loves to rock so it was the perfect find for the lake house porch (she lived in it this weekend).

At the lake, we just chilled.  It was unseasonable cool around 75 degrees so we spent lots of time on the back porch while Landry piddled around.  We also ran through the grass, kicked around a ball, hula hooped, watched a couple of old school movies, and ate too much white cheddar popcorn (all rules go out the window at the lake -- i.e. Landry wore her jammies out there upon insisting and had ice cream with her eggs for breakfast today).

It was a perfect little getaway (minus Barrett's 5 a.m. wake up call and diaper blowout that took four hands and a sink faucet sprayer).

When we left town we had a late lunch at our favorite greasy spoon.  As usual, Landry hit up the vending machine first thing and won a gold teeth grill.  Only in East Texas (or Compton, perhaps) would that be in a kids' vending machine.

On the way out, Landry got to see her first motorcycle gang.  About 40 bikes were in the restaurant's parking lot and she was so intrigued by their funny looking drivers, loud noises and pretty colors (her favorite was a sparkly red one). We sat on the outdoor picnic tables and watched as they all drove off.  She loved every second of the show.

This week is going to be another busy one but nothing like last.  I'm looking forward to the days starting to simmer a bit and then taking off for California and Hawaii for some serious R&R with family and friends!